Project Details
Projekt
Written Online Interviews in Qualitative Social Research
Subject Area
Empirical Social Research
Term
from 2018 to 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403594989
In qualitative interviews, the principle of communicability plays a pivotal role and thus, para- and non-verbal elements of face-to-face interaction are considered as constitutive for them. However, despite its remarkably frequent use, the question of whether the central qualitative interviews face-to-face elements are needed in online interviews, and, if so, whether and how they can be transformed, still largely unacknowledged. Thus, also the methodologically important question is unclear, what kind of data can be generated by online interviews and if this is promising for reactive qualitative research. For asynchronous written communications these and wider questions about the functional conditions of the online interviewing are particularly interesting: their information lack when interpreting the counterpart is in a maximum contrast to the face-to-face surveys in qualitative research. This question of the possible datatypes and its dependence on interview techniques will be studied in the project. For this we will vary asynchronous written online interviews with different forms of communication behavior and questioning techniques and analyze their constitutive terms and their recovered data quality.
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